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Morch 1, 1 Newt journal 38 He has standup act titfe Tmbbs says sports is entertainment airie will be Too on biz, Tubbs in an interview Saturday. "Nobody gripes when Robert Bedford gets S3 million for a single picture, but people raise hell if a player gets a $1 million contract" entertainment, so why shouldn't the top dog get top dollar?" There's a serious side to Tubbs he showed it when talking about the upstart Cardinals' fate against 4th-ranked Michigan State Sunday but he's at his best when deadpanning in a good ole Texas boy drawl. "Our guys love to shoot so much that when we hold the ball, they come down with migraine headaches and withdrawal symptoms," he said. Tubbs' players, winners of the Southland Conference title, are an unorthodox bunch who rely on stunts as much as zone presses, 'slam dunks, man-toman defenses and fast breaks to intimidate their opponents. Last year, as the story goes, before a game against arch rival Southwestern Louisiana in hostile territory, Lamar players circled the court holding one finger aloft in the No.

1 sign as stunned fans watched in silence. They've done it ever since in all league games. "Chris Jones, a senior, doesn't play much, but he's our By STEVE HAGEY UPI Sprts writer Lamar Coach Billy Tubbs says sports is entertainment, and he's doing his part with a standup between rounds of the NCAA Mideast regional basketball playoffs A master of the one-liner, the 44-year-old Beaumont, Texas, coach seems a' little like Alfred Neuman, the character whose classic "What? Me Worry?" expression became. Mad magazine's trademark. His team last week vaulted into a national tournament for the first time ever and Tubbs and crew are loving the limelight.

"I think basketball is show choreographer," Tubbs said. "He sets all that stuff up. It hacks people off at us, and we love it. In another game, with Lamar ahead, Tubbs said he leaned back, lit up a cigar but was promptly told to put it out or he'd be hauled off to jail. "They had some Dick Tracy rent-a-cop type who threatened to run me in unless I put it One of my players took that 'gar away before I got in trouble," he said, "Our philosophy is simple: We don't go into any place with our hats in our hands and our tails tucked between our legs.

We go in there like we own the damn joint. It tears people up." Training rules are practically non-existent. There are no bed checks, no rigid diets. Again Tubbs' philosophy is simple. He tries to teach his players responsibility by letting them be free spirits.

If they can't handle it, they don't last too long on his team. "As long as the kids keep their noses clean, Billy leaves 'em alone. They appreciate it," a school official said. Tubbs said he once used tight controls to keep his players ready for action. But they kept losing.

So, before a game last year against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he did something different. "I told 'em if any of 'em came in before 3 a.m., I'd make 'em run wind sprints the next day. Nobody broke curfew. Well, we lost by one point at the buzzer against a team that at the time had the longest home-court winning streak in the country," he said. "If a guy isn't smart enough to be ready to play, if be puts us in jeopardy, then he'll be gone.

AD my players know it," Tubbs said. "We nave a lot of fun. We're a loose-knit group off the court," he added. "But once the ball goes up, we take the game seriously." Tubbs said most coaches prepare for a game by having second-team players run an opponent's offense against their own defense. "Hell, our second-team guys don't even know our own offense, much less the other team's.

If I can't teach 'em ours in three months, how am I going to teach 'em Michigan State's in one afternoon?" A graduate of Lamar and assistant coach there for 11 years, Tubbs in his three years, as head coach has led the. Cardinals to records of 18-9 and the 234 slate they take into Sunday's game. Hermitage, Tenn. The Class AA championship game in the 1979 Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Boys State Basketball Tournament will be televised this year according to Gill Gideon, Executive Secretary of the TSSAA. "We are very pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with Tee Broadcasting Company to present the Boys' Class AAA finals in a statewide TV hook-up," said Gideon.

Three stations will be carrying the games live with three other stations having a delayed broadcast on Saturday night. Nashville's WNGE, Chattanooga's WDEF and WBBJ of Jackson will carry the game live while WHBQ in Knoxville's WBIR and Kingsport's WKPT will be on a delayed broadcast. "We hope that our production will grow from the boys' Class AAA finals to eventually include all classes in both the and girls' state tournaments," indicated Ty Coppinger, president of Tee Broadcasting. "We are really excited about being able to bring the best of high school athletics to fans throughout the state," he added. Play-by-play will be handled by Dick Palmer.

Palmer has been the voice of professional football, basketball and baseball teams. He is now the television voice of professional football, basketball and baseball teams. He is now the television voice of the Vanderbilt University Basketball Network and will call the television games of the Nashville Sounds of the Southern Baseball League this summer. Coppinger will serve as the color analyst for the telecast on Saturday night, March 24, from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. He has been a sports writer and announcer for a number of years as well as serving as a football coaeh at Auburn and Memphis State.

He is host of a coach's television show in Nashville and will work with Palmer this summer during the broadcast of the Sounds. MTSU tennis makes sweep cern to the Vol enthusiast. just tickets to their favorite ball club. And as if there were no chance at all Tennessee would lose to EKU. they bought tickets for both nights.

The Vols didn't disappoint their fans; they beat down a slightly stubborn Eastern Kentucky team as thousands cheered defendingly from the upper cheap seats (bleachers as opposed to chairbacks). parently all of them wound up in the hands of Tennessee fans. Big- (Continued From Page Bl) and from nearly all the rest of Murphy Center. There was one small section (maybe 300). EKU fans trying to compete with the Orange madness, but it was a futile effort to say the least.

The above statement is not saying all those folks in the ticket line were for Tennessee. There were probably prospective scalpers buying up a few tickets, but ap- WE MUST SEa 800 UNITS DURING THE iV.ONTH OF MARCH Dame Catholic support in this area. Tennessee has broken a long jinx by winning its first NCAA playoff game in five tries. Now. if Don DeVoe really wants to set his cap right with te Orange fans, nothing could do it more thoroughly than beating Coach Digger Phelps and the Fighting Irish.

Maybe DeVoe and the Vols can make at least a small amend for the Vol football loss to Notre Dame. Incidentally, some of you fine Murfreesboroans may see a familiar face on the Notre Dame cheerleading squad. Person in mind is Loretta Ransom, former Oakland High cheerleader, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Ransom of this city.

This has to be quite a homecoming for Loretta. If you can't trade with KENTDOBBS.w; Then you just can't trade i. -V NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSEfa CALL KENT DOpSS BEAMAfJ PONTIAC St. John's surprises Temple 75-70 NASHVILLE, TINNESSIH Why this conclusion? About 30 minutes before tipoff for the Tennessee-Eastern Kentucky game, those cheap seats began quickly filling up with persons brandishing Orange and White shakers. Virtually every seat in the bleacher section seemed to be filled with Tennessee fans and when the ball club came on the floor.

Murphy Center experienced its most deafening cheer for a ball club ever. There is one thing slightly puzzling to this reporter. The event was an absolute sellout. no tickets available, scalpers picking up more than $100 for bleacher seats. But still with all of this demand for there were at least two small sections of chaifcback seats that were at no time occupied during either theLaraar win over Detroit U.

oMhe Vol victory over Eastern Kentucky. Wonder what happened? It will be interesting to see today if all those seats that were obviously purchased by someone are claimed when Tennessee takes on fifth ranked Notre Dame in the second game and Lamar is confronted by Michigan State and the fabulous Ervin (Magic) Johnson, a sensation with the Spartans since the first day he donned a Michigan State But Magic Johnson will be only a' small attraction to Murphy Center compared to Tennessee and. the Notre Phono 2S6-120D Goodrich need to do to help the team win." The lead changed hands eight times and the score was tied seven times during a close first half before St. John's took a 41-37 lead at intermission. The Redmen stayed on top from then on, despite the efforts of Walt Montford, who led the Owls with 22 points.

Montford hit a basket and a free throw with 9:15 to play to pull the Owls within three, 55-52. Temple's Bruce Harrold, who finished with 18 points, later hit two baskets but missed a free throw with 7:46 left which would have tied it 57-57. But then the Redmen took over. Reggie Carter added 20 points for St. Johns', which will meet seventh-ranked Duke Sunday.

By United Press International St. John's, which only made it to the NCAA tournament on an at-large bid after losing to Iona in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament, surprised 16th-ranked Temple 75-70 Friday night in the opening round of the 41st annual tourney. Wayne McKoy scored 22 points, grabbed 8 rebounds and dominated the middle to lead St. 19-10, in its ilth NCAA tournament appearance. And he thought it proved something.

"I feel a lot of people, were putting me down after the Iona game. I'm not a big scorer," said McKoy. "I'm not. a big rebounder, I just do what I STEEL BHITIED RADIAL RICHMOND, Ky. The Middle Tennessee State University tennis team made a clean sweep of a trip into Kentucky this week stopping Southeastern Conference contender Kentucky 5-4 and whipping two lesser foes.

The Blue Raiders whipped Kentucky 5-4 in their closest call in. three matches. They turned back" Ohio Valley Conference contender Eastern Kentucky 6-2. Last match on the stop here in Richmond, Ky. saw the Blue Raiders blank Eastern Michigan 9-0.

Next week the Raiders host Illinios Saturday morning and then head Into Charleston, S.C. to play the Cidadel and five other top contenders. Kentucky Singles Jack Webb. (UK), def. Dale Short (MT), 6-3, 6-3.

Tony Alroy (UK), def. Tony Fernancez (MTS) 6-2, 7-6. Scott Webb (UK) def. Peter Roberts (MTS) 6-4, 6-2. Peter Heffernan (MT) def.

Judd Brown (UK), 6-4, 3, 6-0. Stuart Thompson (MT), def. Scott Foster, (UK), 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. Danny Wallace (MT) def Rob Worley(UK) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6. Doubles Webb-Webb (UK), def.

TfcmpsoRobert8(MTi6-4, 6- Sbort-Heffernan (MT), def, Alroy-Worley (UK) 6-3, 6-4. Wallace-Fernancez (MT) def. Foster-Wagner (UK), 7-6, 6-7, 7-6. WonatEKU7-2 Eastern Michigan Singles Dale Short (MT) def. Rich Shaheen (EM), 6-2, 64.

Peter Heffernan (MT) def. Dave Chandler 6-2, 6-4. Peter Roberts (MT) def. Tim Krebble 6-4, 6-4. Stuwart Thompson (MT) def.

Jeff Holman 6-0, 6-2. Danny Wallace (MT) Cheesewright 6-3, 7-5. Tony Fernandez (MT), def. Cameron Greig 6-1, 6-1. Doubles Roberts-Thompson (MT), def.

Chandler-Krebble 6-1, 6-1. Short-Heffernan (MT) def. Shaheen-Holman 7-5, 6-0. Wallace-Fernadez (MT) def. Cheesewright-Creig 6-2, 6-7, 6-3.

Eastern Kentucky Singles Peter Heffernan (MT), def. Curt Heuernan (EKU), 64), 6-1. Rick Vandish (EKU), def. Tony Fernancez (MTS), 4-6, 7-6, 64. Peter Roberts (MT) def.

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